This week on Jerusalem Dateline: U.N. accuses Israel of possible war crimes, Netanyahu fires back; plus Christians speak up in Washington about the threat to the church in Middle East; and 3,000-year-old discovery reveals life in time of King David.
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THIS WEEK ON "JERUSALEM
DATELINE," THE U.N.
ACCUSES ISRAEL OF WAR
CRIMES, AND ISRAEL'S PRIME
MINISTER, NETANYAHU, FIRES
BACK.
> PLUS, CHRISTIANS SPEAK
UP IN WASHINGTON ABOUT THE
THREAT TO THE CHURCH IN
THE MIDDLE EAST.
> AND A 3,000-YEAR-OLD
DISCOVERYCONFIRMS WHAT
ISRAEL WAS LIKE
DURING THE TIME OF KING DAVID.
ALL THIS AND MORE ON THIS
EDITION OF "JERUSALEM
DATELINE." HELLO, AND
WELCOME TO THIS EDITION OF
"JERUSALEM DATELINE." I'M
CHRIS MITCHELL.
ISRAEL WANTS PALESTINIANS
TO GET OUT OF HARM'S WAY
DURING LAST SUMMER'S WAR
IN THE GAZA STRIP.
BUT HAMAS TOLD ITS
CIVILIANS TO STAY IN THE
PATH OF THOSE BOMBS, AND
LAUNCHED ROCKET STRIKES
AGAINST ISRAEL CIVILIANS.
BUT A U.N. REPORT NOW
ACCUSES ISRAEL OF WAR
CRIMES, BUT ISRAEL IS
REJECTING THOSE
ACCUSATIONS.
ISRAEL SAYS THE 200-PAGE
REPORT IS POLITICALLY
MOTIVATED.
AND BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
BLASTED THE COUNCIL.
THE UNITED NATIONS
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HAS A
SINGULAR OBSESSION WITH
ISRAEL.
IT HAS PASSED MORE
RESOLUTIONS AGAINST ISRAEL
THAN AGAINST SYRIA, NORTH
KOREA, COMBINED.
IN FACT, IT HAS PASSED
MORE RESOLUTIONS AGAINST
ISRAEL THAN AGAINST ALL OF
THE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD
COMBINED.
Reporter: LAST WEEK
SENIOR GENERALS FROM THE
U.S. RELEASED THEIR OWN
INDEPENDENT REPORT, AND
SAID ISRAEL NOT ONLY MET
INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS
REGARDING THE ARMS OF
CONFLICT, BUT IN MANY
CASES SIGNIFICANTLY
EXCEEDED THOSE.
SOME ARE SAYING ISRAEL'S
STANDARD IS SO HIGH, IT
CHALLENGES OTHER WESTERN
NATIONS.
DURING THE 50-DAY
CONFLICT, THE U.N.
COMMISSION SAID 14,062
PALESTINIANS WERE KILLED,
A THIRD OF THEM CHILDREN.
IT CRITICIZED ISRAEL FOR
DISPROPORTIONATE FORCE AND
FAILING TO CHANGE ITS
TACTICS DURING THE WAR
WHEN CIVILIANS WERE
KILLED, EVEN THOUGH ISRAEL
WARNED CIVILIANS IN
SEVERAL WAYS.
IT IS HARD FOR ME TO
SEE HOW ISRAEL COULD HAVE
DONE BETTER.
WHAT COULD IT HAVE DONE
MORE THAN WARN THE PEOPLE
THE WAY THEY DID?
WHAT COULD IT HAVE DONE
MORE THAN MAKE PHONE CALLS
INTO INDIVIDUALS INSIDE
BUILDINGS ABOUT TO BE
ATTACKED?
Reporter: COLONEL
ADVOCATE DAVID BENJAMIN IS
THE FORMER I.D.F. LEGAL
ADVISOR FOR THE GAZA
STRIP.
AND WHILE HAMAS LAUNCHED
MORE THAN 14,000 ROCKETS
AND 1700 MORTERS AT
ISRAEL, IT STOPPED SHORT
OF BLAMING HAMAS FOR
STARTING THE WAR.
IT KIND OF PUTS THE
BLOCKADE AGAINST GAZA AS
BEING MAYBE THE ROOT
CAUSE.
IT DOESN'T SUGGEST THAT
THE BLOCKADE IS THERE
BECAUSE OF HAMAS
TERRORISM.
Reporter: IRONICALLY,
HAMAS REJECTED THE
FINDINGS OF THE REPORT
BECAUSE OF ITS COMPARISON
BETWEEN ISRAEL AND HAMAS.
ITH IT IS A FATAL
MISTAKE, AND A BIG PROBLEM
IN THIS REPORT IS ALL OF
THE TIME THEY TRIED TO
MAKE COMPARISONS.
Reporter: MARY DAVIS,
CHAIR OF THE COMMISSION,
SAYS THEY DON'T HAVE THE
EVIDENCE TO PROVE WAR
CRIMES WERE COMMITTED.
IT IS A GREAT SOURCE OF
REGRET WE COULD NOT TRAVEL
TO ISRAEL AND THE OCCUPIED
TERRITORY TO MEET THEM
FACE TO FACE.
MOST OF THE DECISIONS
TO ATTACK CERTAIN
BUILDINGS OR TARGETS ARE
BASED ON SECRET
INTELLIGENCE.
AND YOU INCUMBEN CAN'T HAVE THE
ENEMY KNOWING ABOUT THE
SECRET INTELLIGENCE.
Chris: BENJAMIN SAID
IT IS A GREAT PROPAGANDA
TOOL FOR THEM EVEN IF IT
DOESN'T HAVE ENOUGH
SUBSTANCE.
IT HAS BEEN MORE THAN A
YEAR SINCE ISIS RAMPAGED
THROUGH IRAQ AND SYRIA.
AND THEY LEFT BEHIND A
SELF-PROCLAIMED CALIPHATE.
THOSE WHO LIVED UNDER ISIS
TELL GREWSOME STORIES
ABOUT HOW AND THEIR LOVED
ONES WERE TREATED.
George: THE WHOLE
WORLD KNOWS OF ISIS, FROM
INNOCENT WESTERNERS
BEHEADED, TO THOUSANDS OF
CHRISTIANS AND OTHER
MINORITIES FORCED TO FLEE
OR DIE.
FOR THOSE LIVING IN OR
NEAR ISIS-CONTROLLED
TERRITORY, THE NIGHTMARE
REMAINS.
SHAKESHEIKH IBRAHIM HAS
SOMETHING TO REMEMBER HIS
WIFE BUT A DEATH
CERTIFCATE.
HE HAS NO IDEA WHAT ISIS
DID WITH HER BODY.
THIS IS A DEATH
CERTIFCATE FROM THE JUDGE.
IT SHOWS THEY ASSASSINATED
HER.
HER.
George: THE SHEIKH'S
TOWN WAS LIBERATED BY THE
KURDS THIS YEAR, BUT SALIM
AKMED, ANOTHER RESIDENT,
AND FORMER ARMY MEMBER,
STILL CARRIES HIS I.D.
CARD.
IT MAY HAVE SAVED HIS
LIFE.
WHEN YOU ARRIVE AT THE
CHECK-POINT, THEY ASK ARE
YOU A POLICE OR AN ARMY
MEMBER, AND I SAID YES.
AND THEY ASKED FOR THE
CARD.
IF YOU HANDED IN THE
WEAPON, YOU COULD GO.
IF NOT, THEY TOLD YOU TO
BRING YOUR WEAPON OR THEY
PUT YOU IN JAIL.
George: ISIS REQUIRES
ALL POLICEMEN, SOLDIERS
AND OTHER GOVERNMENT
EMPLOYEES TO HAVE A
REPENTANCE CARD.
EVEN ORDINARY CITIZENS
HAVE TO HAVE ONE, LIKE
FORMER ENGLISH TEACHERS
BECAUSE THEY ONCE TAUGHT,
QUOTE,"A FORBIDDEN
LANGUAGE."
FOR THE MILLIONS TRAPPED
UNDER THE ISLAMIC STATE'S
REIGN OF TERROR, ANYONE
WHO DOESN'T FOLLOW SHAR'IA
LAW IS AT RISK.
THE METHODS OF ISIS
CONTROL RANGE FROM
HARASSMENT TO WHIPPING TO
MIND-BOGGLING EVIL.
THEY SENT MOHAMMED A C.D.
SHOWING HIS BROTHER'S
BEHEADING.
HIS BROTHER IS THE ONE
KNEELING ON THE LEFT.
I WANT TO CROSS THE
FRONT LINE SO I CAN BLOW
MYSELF UP IN FRONT OF
ISIS.
ALTHOUGH I MIGHT DIE.
BUT THAT DOESN'T SATISFY
ME.
SO IF I CHOP THEM UP AND
EAT THEIR BLOOD, IT WON'T
TAKE AWAY MY PAIN.
George: AND ISIS
DROPS LEAFLETS, TELLING
WOMEN HOW TO DRESS AND
ISSUED PERMISSION FORMS TO
TRAVEL.
THESE GUARDS PUNISHED FOR
VICES, SUCH AS SMOKING, AS
WELL.
FOR SMOKERS, THEY PUT A
PIECE OF IRON BETWEEN YOUR
FINGERS AND THEY BREAK
YOUR FINGERS.
AND THEY FINE HIM 5,000 TO
10,000 DENAR FOR EACH
CIGARETTE.
George: SALIM AKMED
STILL KEEPS HIS REPENTANCE
CARD IN CASE ISIS RETURNS.
NOW WE'RE AFRAID
BECAUSE WE'RE VERY CLOSE
TO THEIR ATTACK LINE.
IT IS ONLY A HALF
KILOMETRE EWAY FRO AWAY FROM HERE.
IF THEY GO AWAY, I CAN'T
THROW THE CARD AWAY
BECAUSE I DON'T RECOGNIZE
THIS PAPER.
Chris: IN A RELATED
STORY, SOME SAY AMERICA
AND THE WORLD MUST SPEAK
THE WORLD AND ACT.
CHRISTIANS FROM THE MIDDLE
EAST FACE ANNIHILATION AND
URGENTLY NEED HELP BEFORE
IT IS TOO LATE.
GARY LANE HAS THAT STORY
FROM WASHINGTON.
Reporter: FROM EGYPT
TO SYRIA AND IRAQ, ANCIENT
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES ARE
UNDER THREAT OF
EXTINCTION.
CHRISTIANS AND OTHER
MINORITIES ARE IN DEEP
DANGER, AND WE DARE NOT BE
SILENT.
THE TIME TO SPEAK IS NOW.
Reporter: KATRINA
SWEAT, CHAIRMAN OF THE
U.S. COMMISSION ON
INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS
FREEDOM DELIVERED THAT
MESSAGE AT THE SIX AND
ANNUAL COPTIC SOLIDARITY
CONFERENCE ON PERSECUTION
IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
WHY SHOULD AMERICANS ARE
OTHER WESTERNERS GET
INVOLVED?
SHE SAYS RELIGIOUS
EXTREMISM CROSSES OCEANS
AND CON NENTS.
CONTINENTS.
WHEN COPTIC CHRISTIANS
IN EGYPT ARE ATTACKED BY
EXTREMISTS FOR SUPPOSEDLY
VIOLATING SUCH LAWS AND WE
ARE SILENT, WE SHOULD NOT
BE SURPRISE WHEN ATTACKS
COMMENCE IN THE TREATS OF
PARIS OR ELSEWHERE.
AMERICA IS IN A PLACE
TO STOP THE PERSECUTION OF
CHRISTIANS IN NUMBERS
NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN IN THE
WORLD.
GOD HAS ALLOWED US TO BE
AT THAT PLACE.
Reporter: BUT BEFORE
AMERICA AND OTHER NATIONS
CAN RESPOND EFFECTIVELY,
THEY MUST FACE THE TRUTH
ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING
AND WHY.
MIDDLE EAST ANALYST
RAYMOND IBRAHIM BLAMES THE
MEDIA.
WE KNOW ABOUT THIS ISIS
THING BECAUSE ISIS WANTS
YOU TO KNOW.
AND THE MEDIA, IF
ANYTHING, HAS RESPONDED BY
GIVING US A PLETHORA OF
EDITORIALS, TRYING TO
CONVINCE US THAT WHAT ISIS
IS DOING IS NOT ISLAMIC.
Reporter: AND IBRAHIM
SAYS AMERICAN LEADERS MUST
SPEAK THE TRUTH ABOUT THE
ATROCITIES, LIKE THE
BEHEADING OF COPTIC
CHRISTIANS IN LIBYA.
ACCORDING TO THE WHITE
HOUSE, IT WAS 21 EGYPTIAN
WHO WERE RANDOMLY KILLED,
NOT BECAUSE OF THEIR
RELIGION AND SO FAR.
Reporter: THIS RABBI
IS URGENTLY CONCERNED
ABOUT IRAQ AND SYRIAN
CHRISTIANS.
THEIR NUMBERS HAVE
DWINDLED TO A FRACTION OF
WHAT THEY WERE JUST 20
YEARS AGO.
IF WE'RE GOING TO
PRESERVE THOSE
COMMUNITIES, WE KNOW WHAT
NEEDS TO BE DONE.
FIRST, UNTIL ISIL IS
PUSHED OUT, THOUGH
DISPLACED COMMUNITIES NEED
TO BE ABLE TO LIVE WITH A
QUALITY OF LIFE.
Reporter: AND THAT
MEANS PROVIDING SECURITY
AND STABILITY FOR THEM.
ALONG WITH BETTER HEALTH
CARE AND SCHOOLS FOR THEIR
CHILDREN.
WE CANNOT STAND BY AND
WATCH THIS.
WE HAVE A MORAL OBLIGATION
TO ACT IN DEFENSE OF OUR
BROTHERS AND SISTERS
ABROAD.
Reporter: CHRISTIAN
ACTIVISTS HERE IN
WASHINGTON ARE ONCE AGAIN
SPEAKING LOUDLY, REMINDING
THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS
THAT SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE
DONE QUICKLY TO PROTECT
THESE ANCIENT COMMUNITIES
FROM ANNIHILATION.
GARY LANE, CBN NEWS,
CAPITOL HILL.
Chris: COMING UP,
WHAT DO MUSLIMS BELIEVE
ABOUT THE END TIMES?
AND WHO IS THIS ISLAMIC
MESSIAHCALLED THE MAHDI?
WE'LL HAVE ANSWERS WHEN WE
COME BACK.
Chris: WELCOME BACK.
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF THE
MUSLIM MESSIAH?
HE IS CALLED THE MAHDI,
AND MANY MUSLIMS BELIEVE
HE IS COMING TO SAVE THE
WORLD AT THE END OFTIME.
OTHERS BELIEVE HE HAS COME
TO DESTROY IT.
MILLIONS OF MUSLIMS
FROM AROUND THEWORLD ARE
WAITING FOR AN ISLAMIC
MESSIAH, KNOWN AS THE
MAHDI.
VARIOUS BRANCHES OF ISLAM
HAVE DIFFERING BELIEFS.
SHI'A MUSLIMS BELIEVE
THEIR SAVIOR WAS ONCE
ALIVE BUT DISAPPEARED AND
WILL EMERGE A SECOND TIME
FROM THIS WELL, LOCATED IN
A SMALL VILLAGE IN IRAN.
SUNNI MUSLIMS ALSO BELIEVE
IN A SAVIOR, BUT THEY
BELIEVE THE MAHDI IS
MUHAMMAD'S SUCCESSOR AND
HAS YET TO COME TO EARTH.
JOEL RICHARDSON HAS
WRITTEN SEVERAL BOOKS ON
HOW ISLAMIC BELIEFS RELATE
TO BIBLICAL PROPHECY.
AND HIS BOOK SUGGESTS THAT
THIN HIS BOOK, "MIDEAST
BEAST," HE ARGUES THE
ANTI-CHRIST WILL COME FROM
THE MIDDLE EAST, AND NOT
FROM EUROPE.
BIBLE TEACHERS HAVE
TRADITIONALLY TAUGHT THAT
THE ANTI-CHRIST WOULD COME
FROM EUROPE.
WHY IS THAT?
REALLY, IT HAS BEEN
BECAUSE OF A
MISINTERPRETTATIONS OF A
FEW KEY TEXTS, DANIEL 2
AND 9: 24.
26.
AND IN MY BOOK I WALK
THROUGH THE PASSAGESAND
SHOW THEY'RE FROM THE
MIDDLE EAST AND NOT
EUROPE.
George: WHAT EVIDENCE
DO YOU HAVE THAT THE
ANTI-CHRIST IS GOING TO
RISE UP FROM THE MIDDLE
EAST?
WE, OF COURSE, THE
SCRIPTURE, THAT IS OUR
MOST IMPORTANT
DETERMINANT.
AND YOU HAVE REFERENCE TO
THE GEOGRAPHY HE IS GOING
TO COME FROM.
AND HE DENIES THE FATHER
AND THE SON.
YOU HAVE THE
ANTI-SEMITISM, THE
ANTI-ZIONISM, AS WELL AS
IN THE QURAN YOU HAVE
THESE VERY ANTI-CHRISTIC
STATEMENTS.
EVERY ESSENTIAL DOCTRINE
THAT YOU AND I BELIEVE IS
CHRISTIANS, THE ATTONING
WORK OF CHRIST ON THE
CROSS, THE TRINITY --
THESE ARE REFERRED TO AS
BLASPHEMY.
THE QURAN ACTUALLY
CANONIZES THIS
ANTI-CHRIST,
ANTI-CHRISTIAN RHETORIC.
George: YOU SAY IN
YOUR BOOK THERE IS A
SIMILARITY BETWEEN THE
ANTI-CHRIST AND THE MAHDI.
THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE?
IN MANY WAYS, WHAT
THEY'RE LOOKING FOR IN
THEIR MESSIAH FIGURE BEARS
MANY STRIKING RESEMBLANCES
TO THE ICHRIST.
ANTI-CHRIST.
WE CAN SEE THE SATANIC
HAND IN THE HISTORY AND
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THESE
ISLAMIC PROPHECIES,
LEADING MUSLIMS TO BE SET
UP IN SO MANY WAYS.
THIS IS WHY WE NEED TO BE
CRYING OUT FOR MUSLIMS.
George: MUSLIMS
FEVERISHLY BELIEVE -- BOTH
THE SUNNI AND OTHER SECTS,
BELIEVE THERE WILL BE A
MESSIAH THAT WILL COME.
YES.
THEY BELIEVE THEY'RE IN
THE END TIMES.
THEY BELIEVE THEIR
PROPHECIES ARE BEING
FULFILLED.
PASSION AND THE GO FOR
BROKE ATTITUDE THAT IS
SPURRING ACROSS MUCH OF
THE ISLAMIC WORLD.
George: IT IS
INTERESTING BECAUSE WHEN
YOU WATCH SOME OF THE ISIS
BEHEADINGS AND YOU LISTEN
TO THE ARABIC SAYINGS,
THEY INVOKE THE RETURN OF
THE MAHDI, AND THAT
BEHEADING THE CHRISTIANS
AND IN FED DILL INFIDELS IS FULFILLING
OF THE PROPHECY.
I SAW THE SOULS OF
THOSE BEHEADED.
WHEN YOU SAW THE 21
COPTICS, YOU COULDN'T HELP
BUT SEE SCRIPTURE BEING
FULFILLED RIGHT BEFORE US.
George: YOU ARE, IN
ADDITION TO ALERTING THE
FOLKS OF THE TIMES WE'RE
LIVING IN, YOU SAY IT IS
ALSO IMPORTANT TO SHARE
THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST
WITH THOSE TRAPPED IN THIS
RELIGION?
WE NEED TO LOOK AT THIS
INFORMATION TO SPUR US ON
TO URGENCY TO PROCLAIM THE
GOSPEL.
GOD LEVELS MUSLIMS.
AND HE HAS PROVEN IT BY
APPEARING TO MUSLIMS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
HE IS APPEARING TO THEM
THROUGH DREAMS AND
VISIONS.
BUT IT IS NOT JUST THROUGH
THE DREAMS AND VISIONS.
IT IS WHEN CHRISTIANS HAVE
THE SIMPLE COURAGE TO
SHARE THE GOSPEL.
IF WE'RE GOING TO FULFILL
THE GREAT COMMISSION -- IF
ISIS CAN RAISE UP 40,000
YOUNG PEOPLE FROM ALL
AROUND THE WESTERN WORLD
TO JOIN ISIS, WE, AS THE
CHURCH, OUGHT TO BE ABLE
TO SEND THOUSANDS TO THE
MIDDLE EAST TO BE
AMBASSADORS OF CHRIST.
WE'RE BEHIND THE CURB
RIGHT NOW.
George: IS THIS A
GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR
CHRISTIANS, LOOKING FOR A
COMMONALITY TO SAY,
LISTEN, WE HAVE A SIMILAR
STORY.
WE BELIEVE THAT JESUS
CHRIST IS GOING TO RETURN.
AND USE THAT AS A CULTURAL
AND A RELIGIOUS HOOK TO
SHARE THE GOSPEL WITH
MUSLIMS?
YEAH, IT IS.
IT IS A GOOD
CONVERSATIONAL GATEWAY,
ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE
FAMILIAR WITH THE
MATERIAL.
I THINK IT IS ALWAYS BEST
TO BRING IT BACK TO JESUS.
WE CAN TALK ABOUT THEIR
END TIMES, BUT IF WE BRING
IT BACK TO END TIMES, YOU
BELIEVE JESUS IS
RETURNING, AND WE BELIEVE
JESUS IS RETURNING.
AND BRING IT BACK TO THE
BIBLICAL STORY AND REALLY
COMMUNICATE THAT GOD LOVES
THEM.
AND ONE OF THE BEST WAYS
WITH CAWE CAN DO THAT IS IF WE
LOVE THEM OURSELVES.
George: JOEL
RICHARDSON, THANK YOU FOR
JOINING US.
MY PLEASURE.
Chris: UP NEXT, WE
TALK WITH THE SON OF AN
INFAMOUS NAZI.
HIS FATHER USED TO KILL
JEWS: NOW HIS SON LOVES
THEM.
Cliff: WELCOME BACK.
VERNA OLDER LIVED IN THE
SHADOW OF THE HOLOCAUST.
HIS FATHER TRAINED
SOLDIERS TO KILL JEWS.
NOW THROUGH A REMARKABLE
TRANSFORMATION, OLDER NOW
LOVES THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
YOUR BACKGROUND?
MY FAMILY WERE
CATHOLICS, AND WHEN HITLER
CAME TO POWER, WITH ALL OF
HIS LIES AND EMPTY
PROMISES, THEY JOINED HIS
FORCE.
AND MY FATHER JOINED AN
ELITE UNIT AT THAT TIME,
AND HE WAS TRAINED AS A
SPECIALIST, TO TRAIN IN
THE ART -- THE TERRIBLE
ART OF KILLING THE JEWS.
Reporter: WHAT WAS IT
LIKE WHEN YOU ACTUALLY MET
YOUR FATHER?
WHEN HIS PERSON CAME
HOME, HE WASN'T VERY TALL,
BUT IT SEEMED LIKE A HUGE
BLAD SHADOW THAT CAME INTO
OUR HOME THAT NEVER LEFT
ME FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.
Chris: SO FOR MANY
YEARS YOU WERE HAUNTED BY
NIGHTMARES, WEREN'T YOU?
YES.
IT SEEMED LIKE THOSE
DEMONIC FORCES SEEMED TO
JUMP ON THIS LITTLE CHILD
WHO WAS DEFENSELESS.
HE HAD NO PROTECTION OF
GOD.
SO I GREW UP IN THIS WAY
OUT OF CONTROL INDIVIDUAL,
WHO'S LIFE AND SOUL WAS
RAGING THAT I COULD NOT
CONTROL.
Chris: HOW DID YOU
GET INTRODUCED TO GOD?
I SIMPLY CRIED OUT TO
GOD, WHOM I DIDN'T KNOW.
I DIDN'T THOUGH WHERE HE
WAS.
AND I SAID, GOD, I DON'T
WANT TO DIE.
I WANT TO LIVE.
GOD ANSWERED AND SENT
HELP.
AND HE SENT ME A GERMAN
EVANGELIST WHO CAME TO ME
AND SAID, VERNA, GOD LOVES
YOU SO MUCH, AND HE GAVE
JESUS TO DIE FOR YOU.
IF YOU BELIEVE IN JESUS,
HE WILL FORGIVE YOUR SIN.
AND I YIELDED TO GOD AND
SAID TO MYSELF, IF THAT
DOESN'T WORK, I'VE GOT
NOTHING TO LOSE.
Chris: WHAT HAPPENED
WHEN YOU FOUND OUT THAT
JESUS WAS JEWISH?
I BEGUN TO REALIZE I
BELIEVE IN THE GOD OF
ISRAEL WHO SENT HIS SON,
USHUAIA, TO BECOME THE
MESSIAH, BORN OF A JEWISH
WOMAN, WHO'S NAME WAS
MARIAM.
SOMETHING AMAZING
HAPPENED.
I DISCOVERED A LOW FOR THE
JEWISH PEOPLE.
IT IS NOT BECAUSE I COME
FROM A NAZI BACKGROUND AND
I'M GLLT.
IGUILTY.
IT IS NOT LIKE THAT.
Chris: HOW DO YOU THE
JEWISH PEOPLE REACT TO YOU
KNOW?
THEY CHANGED.
ALTHOUGH THEY CONSIDERED
ME AN ENEMY BEFORE, IN
MINUTES I BECOME THEIR
BEST FRIEND.
Chris: DO YOU SEE
ISRAEL SEEING A SIMILAR
THREAT TO WHAT THEY FACED
IN THE 1930s AND '40s.
NO.
IT IS FAR GREATER.
THE THREAT IN THE '30s
AND '40s WAS CONTAINED
JUST IN THE
GERMANY-SPEAKING WORLD,
LARGELY LIMITED TO EUROPE.
NOW THE THREAT THAT ISRAEL
FACES IS WORLDWIDE.
BUT THERE IS ONE BIG
DIFFERENCE: THERE ARE MORE
CHRISTIANS STANDING WITH
ISRAEL AND PRAYING FOR
ISRAEL THAN EVER IN THE
HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
Chris: SO WHAT DO YOU
LIKE TO SHARE WITH PEOPLE
NOW?
IT IS TIME FOR THE
CHRISTIANS TO BECOME TRUE
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL.
IT IS TIME TO REALIZE THAT
THE PAST HAS BEEN AGAINST
US, BUT IT IS TIME TO
CREATE A NEW FUTURE.
THAT WE LEAVE THE PAST
BEHIND.
WE CLOSE THE DOOR TO THE
TRAUMAS OF THAT WITHOUT
FORGETTING WHAT HAPPENED,
AND TO ACTUALLY STAND UP
AND SAY, I AM A FRIEND OF
ISRAEL.
I STAND WITH ISRAEL.
I WILL SPEAK FOR ISRAEL.
AND I WILL NOT DO THAT,
WHICH MY FOREFATHERS HAVE
DONE BEFORE.
Chris: COMING UP, A
RARE AND REMARKABLE
DISCOVERY FROM THE VALLEY
OF ELA.
IT IS FROM THE TIME IN
ISRAEL, 3,000 YEARS AGO.
Chris: WELCOME BACK.
WHEN MANY PEOPLE IN THE
WORLD QUESTION THE
JEWISH'S PEOPLE'S
ATTACHMENT TO THE WORLD OF
ISRAEL, ISRAELI PRIME
MINISTER BENJAMIN
NETANYAHU WEIGHS IN ON AN
EXTRAORDINARY
ARCHEOLOGICAL FIND FROM
THE TIME OF KING DAVID.
ARCHEOLOGISTS SHOWED
NETANYAHU THE RARE
3,000-YEAR-OLD
INSUBCRIPTION AT HIS
OFFICE IN JERUSALEM.
THEY TOLD HIM THAT UNTIL
FIVE YEARS AGO, THERE WERE
NO KNOWN INSCRIPTIONS FROM
THE KINGDOM OF JUDAH.
TODAY WE HAVE FOUR
INSCRIPTIONS.
ONE FROM JERUSALEM, ONE
FROM BETHEMISH, AND TO
FROTWOFROM BETHA.
Chris: IT IS A PLACE
WHERE THE BIBLE SAID A
YOUNG DAVID FOUGHT
GOLIATH.
CONSERVETORS PUT THE MORE
THAN 100 PIECES OF THE POT
TOGETHER.
THE INSCRIPTION READ
THE STATE OF ABAL, SON THE
ISHMAL.
Reporter: THIS
PARTICULAR FIND CONTAINED
A FASCINATING NAME.
THE NAME IS UNIQUE.
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS.
BUT THE SHABAL IS A VERY
WELL-KNOWN NAME.
IT APPEARED IN THE BIBLE A
FEW TIMES.
BUT ALL OF THE TIME IT IS
MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE IS
FROM THE TIME OF KING
DAVID.
THERE IS THE FAMOUS
ISHBAL, SON OF THE KING.
HIS HEAD WAS CUT OFF AND
BROUGHT TO DAVID TO
HEBRON.
THIS IS NOT THE GUY.
WE HAVE ANOTHER ISHBAL.
ISHBAL MEANS MAN OF
VEIL.
GAR FINGARFINKEL SAID ONE OF
SAUL'S SON'S NAME WAS
CHANGED.
HE TOLD CBN NEWS THAT ALL
ISHBALS IN THE BIBLE AND
ARCHEOLOGY ARE FROM THE
TIME OF KING DAVID.
THIS IS FASCINATING
THAT YOU SEE A CORRELATION
BETWEEN THE BIBLICAL TEXT
AND ARCHEOLOGICAL TEXT.
Reporter: FOR YEARS
EXPERTS SAID THERE WAS NO
PROOF THAT KING DAVID
EXISTS, BUT THIS WORK
PROVES THEY WERE WRONG.
IT TRULY IS A REMARKABLE
DISCOVERY.
IT IS LIKE YOU CAN HEAR
THE ECHOES FROM THREE
MILLENNIUM AGO.
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I'M
CHRIS MITCHELL.
WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT TIME